To const or not to const...

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 15:27:05 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
wrote in message <20030220142705.22460.qmail@thales.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > int main() {
> > 	int b = "again_hello"[5]; /* #2 */
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > Assignment #2 is okay from GCC's eyes, but #1 isn't:
> 
> This is because in the case of #2 the initializer need not be constant
> because the initialization takes place inside a function.

"Hello"[2] (which is 'l') is truly constant, in my eyes. This could fall
under C99 6.6. OTOH, as also mentioned on #gcc, this may be some
undefined thing wrt. C99 and it may be in conflict with 6.6.9.
However, I'd love to see this implemented:-)

MfG, JBG

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